If you are going to be pedantic, at least be correct....
The state of Arizona did pass a law stating that schools can’t teach courses designed “primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group.” Tom Horne, Arizona’s attorney general crafted this law when he was the state’s school superintendent. While still superintendent, he ruled that the Tucson Unified School District's Mexican-American studies program violated the law. To avoid the penalty specified in the law (loss of a percentage of state funds for school support) , TUSD shut down the program.
The NSF Astronomy Division convened a "Senior Review" http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp to try and see where money could be saved to pay for the enormous operating costs of ALMA http://www.alma.nrao.edu/ which is the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. ALMA will be an array of some 64 12-meter antennas operated at an elevation of 5000 m (16,000+ ft). ALMA is a collaboration between the Europeans, Japan, Chile and the US.
Arecibo was a loser in the Senior Review; something has to give to pay for ALMA operations!
What caused the transportation "collapse" in Tucson on Monday morning (resulting in several school districts shutting down, or at least delaying school start times) was not snow on the road but rather iced-over bridges. Tucson and Pima County apparently had only one operational salt truck between them and there are a lot of bridges over Tucson's network of (usually-dry) river beds. Of course, previous applications of salt to the bridges had washed off with the rain that preceded the snow. The kids sure enjoyed playing in the snow, though!
The Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG), which operates 6 solar telescopes around the world designed to obtain continuous observations of the Sun, will provide "live" coverage of the Transit. See http://gong.nso.edu/venus2004
The GONG is used to watch the Sun oscillate, or "ring," which provides mighty useful data on the solar interior. Helioseismology, in other words. See http://gong.nso.edu for details.
Credit Line: The GONG is operated by the National Solar Observatory which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, for the benefit of the astronomical community.
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If you are going to be pedantic, at least be correct.... The state of Arizona did pass a law stating that schools can’t teach courses designed “primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group.” Tom Horne, Arizona’s attorney general crafted this law when he was the state’s school superintendent. While still superintendent, he ruled that the Tucson Unified School District's Mexican-American studies program violated the law. To avoid the penalty specified in the law (loss of a percentage of state funds for school support) , TUSD shut down the program.
Arecibo was a loser in the Senior Review; something has to give to pay for ALMA operations!
What caused the transportation "collapse" in Tucson on Monday morning (resulting in several school districts shutting down, or at least delaying school start times) was not snow on the road but rather iced-over bridges. Tucson and Pima County apparently had only one operational salt truck between them and there are a lot of bridges over Tucson's network of (usually-dry) river beds. Of course, previous applications of salt to the bridges had washed off with the rain that preceded the snow. The kids sure enjoyed playing in the snow, though!
>You think I'm a troll? Name the guy who invented the Y-modem transfer protocol. Chuck Forsberg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Forsberg/
The GONG is used to watch the Sun oscillate, or "ring," which provides mighty useful data on the solar interior. Helioseismology, in other words. See http://gong.nso.edu for details.
Credit Line: The GONG is operated by the National Solar Observatory which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, for the benefit of the astronomical community.